New School Year, New Projects

Tomorrow Jake and I go back to school for the fall semester. Jake will still be working so he's decided to focus on his Pharmacy Technician class and not take any others until next semester when he has more time. I, however, am taking 15 credit hours worth of classes! It seems like a lot when I think of it that way, haha! Six of my credits will be earned online though so I don't think it will be too bad. I was originally only going to take 12 credits but a couple of things changed that. The theatre department gave me a scholarship and invited me out to audition for Grease as part of it. I got cast as an extra/chorus member (not surprising since I'll be 8 months pregnant when we perform it!) and given an extra job as the stage manager. Because I got cast I have to enroll in another 3 credit theatre class that the rehearsals will take place in. I'm actually quite excited about it; I haven't been in a show for around 2 years and I miss the fun and work of it all. I posted a video of my audition piece on my book blog Midnight Magic for Music Monday, check it out if you want!

This Sunday I decided to take part in the indexing program that the church has. It's pretty much just reading the original document and recording the information for the official church records. Each record is checked by multiple people and boy am I thankful for that! The first couple of records I got were easy enough to read and then, bam! It was like I had forgotten how to read or something! They probably won't want to send me anything anymore after they get my latest attempt at "helping," haha! I guess right now the big project is the 1871 census from England. All I can say is that there are probably some people laughing over my interpretations somewhere. I did get a pretty good laugh out of it though; there was a box for the census taker to write down if the person was an "imbecile or idiot" among other options. I didn't realize they actually labeled people like that back then, haha!